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About rituals designed to appease or entice a "divine being"
From the combined perspective of neuropsychiatry and psychotherapy, the rituals designed to appease or entice a divine being are brilliant, self-soothing feedback loops.
From the combined perspective of neuropsychiatry and psychotherapy, the rituals designed to appease or entice a divine being are brilliant, self-soothing feedback loops.
and biologically rational attempts to regulate a terrified nervous system.
When a human feels targeted by existential entropy like disease, drought, or personal disaster, the brain enters a state of high-arousal threat.
When a human feels targeted by existential entropy like disease, drought, or personal disaster, the brain enters a state of high-arousal threat.
Rituals serve as the prescriptive behavior to down-regulate this threat.
In the lab we look at what the act of performing them does to the brain and body:
1. Disrupting the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD). As established, the human brain default to "agenticity",
In the lab we look at what the act of performing them does to the brain and body:
1. Disrupting the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD). As established, the human brain default to "agenticity",
From the perspective of both the clinic and the lab, anthropopathism is a functional byproduct of how the human brain is wired to survive a chaotic environment.
In neuropsychiatry, we look at the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD).
In neuropsychiatry, we look at the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD).
Evolutionarily, it was safer for our ancestors to assume a rustle in the grass was a "who" (a predator with intent) rather than a "what" (the wind). When a patient experiences a "streak of bad luck" or a "tanking" of their circumstances, the amygdala triggers a threat response.
The prefrontal cortex, seeking to regulate this fear, searches for a cause. Because our brains are social organs, we default to social causality.
When reality doesn't match our expectations (e.g., "I am a good person, yet I am suffering"), the brain generates a massive prediction
When reality doesn't match our expectations (e.g., "I am a good person, yet I am suffering"), the brain generates a massive prediction
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โThe Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a group of militias in the country backed by Iran, claimed responsibility for the downing of the U.S. aircraft in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.
โThe Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a group of militias in the country backed by Iran, claimed responsibility for the downing of the U.S. aircraft in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.
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This is the fourth reported aircraft loss since the Iran war started, after three F-15 fighters were shot down by friendly fire from Kuwaitโs air defenses.โ
March 13, 2026
@CNBC cnbc.com/2026/03/13/us-โฆ
This is the fourth reported aircraft loss since the Iran war started, after three F-15 fighters were shot down by friendly fire from Kuwaitโs air defenses.โ
March 13, 2026
@CNBC cnbc.com/2026/03/13/us-โฆ
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1. Veneto
Nietzsche once said "When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than Venice".
Nietzsche once said "When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than Venice".
2. Sicily
A concert in Taormina's ancient theater, with Mount Etna erupting in the distance.
A concert in Taormina's ancient theater, with Mount Etna erupting in the distance.
Ras Laffan and the Arctic Metagaz: How two drones changed the calculus of global LNG dependence
A Mega ๐งตbased on my @DecoupleMedia conversation with @SStapczynski
Qatar is roughly the size of Connecticut, a narrow peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz. For decades, this geography was considered a manageable risk, because Qatar had cultivated a reputation for perfect reliability.
When Japan shut down its reactor fleet after Fukushima in 2011 and scrambled to replace the lost generation with gas, Qatar delivered. When spot and short-term suppliers, including an Italian energy major and at least one trading house, voided their flexible contracts with Pakistan during the 2022 price spike and rerouted those cargoes to European buyers willing to pay more, Qatar delivered those too.
Then a $50,000 Iranian drone struck Ras Laffan.
A Mega ๐งตbased on my @DecoupleMedia conversation with @SStapczynski
Qatar is roughly the size of Connecticut, a narrow peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz. For decades, this geography was considered a manageable risk, because Qatar had cultivated a reputation for perfect reliability.
When Japan shut down its reactor fleet after Fukushima in 2011 and scrambled to replace the lost generation with gas, Qatar delivered. When spot and short-term suppliers, including an Italian energy major and at least one trading house, voided their flexible contracts with Pakistan during the 2022 price spike and rerouted those cargoes to European buyers willing to pay more, Qatar delivered those too.
Then a $50,000 Iranian drone struck Ras Laffan.
The attack came in the broader wave of Iranian retaliation for the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure. Qatar, which had maintained som
Artic Metagaz on fire near Malte of the warmest relations with Iran of any Gulf state and had served as broker for the first Israel-Hamas ceasefire, was hit anyway.
The strike forced an evacuation of the facility and the first force majeure declaration in Ras Laffanโs history. The complex produces 77 million tonnes per year (Mt/y), roughly 19 percent of the 411 Mt traded globally in 2024. The North Field East expansion, the first of three planned phases that would nearly double Qatari capacity to 142 Mt/y by 2030, was approaching its first commissioning when the drone hit.
That same week, in the Mediterranean, a Ukranian drone boat struck the Arctic Metagaz, a Russian LNG carrier transiting toward the Suez Canal. The ship was not difficult to find. It was on a known route, visible on commercial vessel-tracking platforms, its name painted on the hull.
LNG tankers had already been rerouting around the Cape of Good Hope since the Houthi attacks made the Red Sea dangerous in late 2023, absorbing the extra transit time and cost rather than risk the strait. But no LNG carrier had been successfully struck. The Arctic Metagaz was the first. For Russia, losing one vessel from a fleet of sixteen shadow tankers is not a rounding error.
The two attacks came within days of each other, from different actors hitting different kinds of targets with different customers, but they broke the same assumption. The cascade that followed is not limited to European gas futures. It includes fertilizer plants in Pakistan going dark, rice farmers in Thailand who cannot get diesel, and nine days of reserve supply sitting in South Korean LNG storage tanks.
Artic Metagaz on fire near Malte of the warmest relations with Iran of any Gulf state and had served as broker for the first Israel-Hamas ceasefire, was hit anyway.
The strike forced an evacuation of the facility and the first force majeure declaration in Ras Laffanโs history. The complex produces 77 million tonnes per year (Mt/y), roughly 19 percent of the 411 Mt traded globally in 2024. The North Field East expansion, the first of three planned phases that would nearly double Qatari capacity to 142 Mt/y by 2030, was approaching its first commissioning when the drone hit.
That same week, in the Mediterranean, a Ukranian drone boat struck the Arctic Metagaz, a Russian LNG carrier transiting toward the Suez Canal. The ship was not difficult to find. It was on a known route, visible on commercial vessel-tracking platforms, its name painted on the hull.
LNG tankers had already been rerouting around the Cape of Good Hope since the Houthi attacks made the Red Sea dangerous in late 2023, absorbing the extra transit time and cost rather than risk the strait. But no LNG carrier had been successfully struck. The Arctic Metagaz was the first. For Russia, losing one vessel from a fleet of sixteen shadow tankers is not a rounding error.
The two attacks came within days of each other, from different actors hitting different kinds of targets with different customers, but they broke the same assumption. The cascade that followed is not limited to European gas futures. It includes fertilizer plants in Pakistan going dark, rice farmers in Thailand who cannot get diesel, and nine days of reserve supply sitting in South Korean LNG storage tanks.
The Champagne of Fuels
To understand why the disruption hit so asymmetrically, it helps to understand what LNG actually is and why its supply chain concentrates risk the way it does. Natural gas, cooled to roughly minus 162 degrees Celsius, compresses to about one six-hundredth of its original volume, dense enough to ship economically across oceans.
That compression is the whole business: the liquefaction trains at Ras Laffan are the refrigerators, enormous industrial machines that chill gas into liquid and run continuously, taking weeks to months to restart after a cold shutdown; purpose-built cryogenic tankers are the thermoses, keeping cargo at minus 162 degrees Celsius across thousands of miles of open ocean; and the regasification terminals in Japan, South Korea, and Pakistan are the toasters that warm it back into pipeline-ready gas.
In a previous episode with Stephen we called LNG the champagne of fuels, and the analogy holds: it is expensive to produce, requires extraordinary handling at every stage, and arrives at the table only because an elaborate and costly infrastructure exists to get it there without incident.
To understand why the disruption hit so asymmetrically, it helps to understand what LNG actually is and why its supply chain concentrates risk the way it does. Natural gas, cooled to roughly minus 162 degrees Celsius, compresses to about one six-hundredth of its original volume, dense enough to ship economically across oceans.
That compression is the whole business: the liquefaction trains at Ras Laffan are the refrigerators, enormous industrial machines that chill gas into liquid and run continuously, taking weeks to months to restart after a cold shutdown; purpose-built cryogenic tankers are the thermoses, keeping cargo at minus 162 degrees Celsius across thousands of miles of open ocean; and the regasification terminals in Japan, South Korea, and Pakistan are the toasters that warm it back into pipeline-ready gas.
In a previous episode with Stephen we called LNG the champagne of fuels, and the analogy holds: it is expensive to produce, requires extraordinary handling at every stage, and arrives at the table only because an elaborate and costly infrastructure exists to get it there without incident.
On this day in 1978, George Washington is posthumously promoted. It had been more than two centuries since the American Revolution began. Washingtonโs new rank? General of the Armies of the United States.
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Washingtonโs promotion was retroactively dated to July 4, 1976, the bicentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Today, the rank is the highest in the United States military, and it has been held by only one other officer, John Pershing (WWI). Even Pershing, though, cannot hold a rank equal to Washingtonโs. Congress also resolved that โno officer of the United States Army should outrank Lieutenant General George Washington.โ
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1/ Sen. Jim Guthrie has been refusing to give hearings to several immigration enforcement bills in the Senate.
That made me curious.
I started looking into who funds Guthrieโs campaigns to see if there might be a connection.
What I found in Idahoโs campaign finance filings was interesting. A thread. ๐งต
That made me curious.
I started looking into who funds Guthrieโs campaigns to see if there might be a connection.
What I found in Idahoโs campaign finance filings was interesting. A thread. ๐งต
2/ While reviewing Guthrieโs campaign donations I saw the kinds of contributors youโd expectโฆ BigAg companies like Simplot and industry PACs like the Idaho Dairy Industry PAC.
But one donor caught my attention: Gem State Legacy PAC.
But one donor caught my attention: Gem State Legacy PAC.
3/ It turns out Gem State Legacy PAC is chaired by Senate Pro Tem Kelly Anthon.
Dozens, maybe hundreds of these piece have been written. They all say same thing and have no connection to reality. They also present recent innovations to โliberalismโ as being the genuine thing, which they are not. Long thread โฆ
The three legs of post 1989 โliberalโ stool โ mass migration from 3rd world, state sanctioned discrimination against whites (esp white men), and free trade w non-peer economies โ are not actually liberal at all. They are policy preferences advanced by governing elite in West who then identified as โliberalโ โฆ
Bc the above are not liberal, u can make โliberalโ arguments against all of them. 3rd world migration began and continued for decades despite overwhelming public opposition. State encouraged discrimination against whites penalizes a single outgroup for an immutable characteristic. Free trade w non peer economies uses arbitrage of global labor mkt to circumvent policies imposed by electorate โฆ
1/ Finally I can share this : I propose the investigation of Fucoidan (LMWF) using a RCT for the amelioration of Post Exertional Malaise -and possibly of other symptoms- of #MECFS and related syndromes. Here is why (make sure you read Disclaimer at end of thread) :
2/ In previous posts, I shared that efferocytosis is becoming more relevant as more results from studies are coming in. At the time of this post here is how it looks like with relevant studies . Link to the file : docs.google.com/spreadsheets/dโฆ
3/ It appears that Fucoidan matches with many key aspects that are important for proper efferocytosis. ABCA1, LXR, GAS6 / MerTK are regulated by Fucoidan (all these concepts were found by studies - see previous post). Some relevant studies regarding fucoidan shown below :
GOLD Shall Destroy the Fed
" It took 650 Planes to Remove our Gold from the Vatican
๐จ BREAKING: Claude can now build interactive charts, diagrams, and data visualizations directly inside your conversation.
No plugins. No side panels. No exporting to Canva.
Your junior data analyst, presentation designer, and reporting intern just became optional.
Here are 5 prompts to put this to work immediately ๐
No plugins. No side panels. No exporting to Canva.
Your junior data analyst, presentation designer, and reporting intern just became optional.
Here are 5 prompts to put this to work immediately ๐
Anthropic just rolled this out to every Claude user, including free accounts.
Here's what changed:
โ Claude auto-detects when a visual would explain something better than text
โ Charts, diagrams, and interactive widgets render inline, not in a side panel
โ Visuals update in real-time as the conversation evolves
โ Built with HTML and SVG, not image generation
This is Claude getting its own whiteboard. And it changes how you work with data entirely.
Here's what changed:
โ Claude auto-detects when a visual would explain something better than text
โ Charts, diagrams, and interactive widgets render inline, not in a side panel
โ Visuals update in real-time as the conversation evolves
โ Built with HTML and SVG, not image generation
This is Claude getting its own whiteboard. And it changes how you work with data entirely.
What this actually replaces in your workflow:
โ The 45-minute Excel chart session before every meeting
โ The back-and-forth with a designer for a simple flowchart
โ The junior analyst formatting your quarterly data into something presentable
โ The Lucidchart subscription you use twice a month
โ The "can someone make this into a visual" Slack message
One conversation with Claude. Done.
Here are the 5 prompts we built to extract maximum value from this:
โ The 45-minute Excel chart session before every meeting
โ The back-and-forth with a designer for a simple flowchart
โ The junior analyst formatting your quarterly data into something presentable
โ The Lucidchart subscription you use twice a month
โ The "can someone make this into a visual" Slack message
One conversation with Claude. Done.
Here are the 5 prompts we built to extract maximum value from this:
Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium.
Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors.
Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. ๐งต
Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors.
Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. ๐งต
Helium is valuable because it has extremely high thermal conductivity, does not react with chemicals in plasma chambers, and works inside high vacuum environments.
Helium is used in semiconductor fabs for:
* Wafer cooling during plasma etching and deposition
* Leak detection in vacuum systems
* Carrier gas in certain deposition processes
* Heat transfer gas behind wafers
* Wafer cooling during plasma etching and deposition
* Leak detection in vacuum systems
* Carrier gas in certain deposition processes
* Heat transfer gas behind wafers
